Autoflush not working in 2.5.2

2007-05-05 Thread Steven Backus
My solaris machine seems to have backed up fine last night, however, none of my holding disks were drained. I do nightly backups to the holding disk Monday - Thursday then put in the tape on Friday, autoflush used to take care of the rest, not so last night. So this morning I run amflush

Re: GNUTAR hanging

2007-05-05 Thread anthonyh
Hi Guys, I think i found out the culprit to this issue. The main problem of the GNUTAR to be in hanging state was due to the cancellation of the amdump process during its execution. This happenned when the amdump (running) process is being cancelled and were being rerun at a certain point of

Amrestore

2007-05-05 Thread Donofrio, Lewis
Do I still have to use another tty to change tapes with amanda 2.5.x? __ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: (734) 323-8776

More on amflush problems with 2.5.2

2007-05-05 Thread Steven Backus
]: [ALL] Today is: 20070505 Flushing dumps in 20070428150002, 20070430190001, 20070501190001, 20070502190001, 20070503190001 using tape changer chg-zd-mtx. Expecting tape genepi053 or a new tape. (The last dumps were to tape genepi052) Are you sure you want to do this [yN]? y Running in background

External HDD recommendations

2007-05-05 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! The 160 GB external HDDs that we are currently using for backups are getting too small, so I'm thinking about getting new bigger ones. Would be interested to hear whether anyone has had particularily bad (or good) experience with any of the popular brands. Thanks in advance. --

Re: External HDD recommendations

2007-05-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:58:16PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! The 160 GB external HDDs that we are currently using for backups are getting too small, so I'm thinking about getting new bigger ones. Would be interested to hear whether anyone has had particularily bad (or good)

amstatus returns uninitialized value!

2007-05-05 Thread FL
I'm using amanda version 2.5.1p3 amstatus Daily works for a while, then returns the following: MP line 3238. Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 681, AMDUMP line 3238. Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/sbin/amstatus line 685, AMDUMP line 3238.